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IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share

Posted by timothy on from the but-high-in-the-single-digits dept.

New submitter fplatten writes "I think this is all you need to see to know what legacy Steve Ballmer has left at Microsoft, where its IE browser market share has collapsed from a high of 86% in 2002 to just 9% now. I guess this is just another in a long list of tech companies that failed to maintain its dominant market share. Also, IE may be the one product that never really deserved it, but just piggybacked on Windows, and users left in droves once decent (more secure) alternatives and standards became popular." Microsoft stockholders probably don't feel too badly about the Ballmer legacy overall, though -- browser choice is a pretty small arm of the octopus.

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  1. W3Schools: Ubiquitous Internet Hub by gr4nf · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a good thing there are websites out there like W3Schools that just about everybody visits on a daily basis. How would we get these statistics otherwise?

  2. Re:Does this take into account smartphones? by lagomorpha2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "mobile devices over the last few years (hundreds of millions) and none of those are running IE."

    Well IE is the default browser that comes with Windows Phone so that's like... the 5 people that bought a Windows Phone.

  3. Re:doesn't add up to 100 by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    9.0 + 26.8 + 55.8 + 3.8 + 1.9 = 97.3

    0.7 = Lynx :)

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  4. Stock price by Dilaudid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft stockholders probably don't feel too badly about the Ballmer legacy overall, though

    He joined in January 2000 when according to that link, the stock was at 48.94. Today the stock is at 36.50. Managing a -25% return over 14 years is not a good thing.

  5. Re:More reprsentative stats please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So does w3schools, go figure.

  6. Re:Does this take into account smartphones? by HornWumpus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doubled last year? So it's you and Ballmer now.

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  7. Re:More reprsentative stats please by skids · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and all those reloads web developers do when trying to figure out "why the hell does this not work under IE" do add up.

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  8. Re:More reprsentative stats please by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm.. I can't seem to find it in the Debian/Hurd OS repos. Guess its not ready for the big time.

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  9. Re:More reprsentative stats please by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, Fox news has an agenda to push, its terrible on purpose. Slashdot is just terrible on accident.

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  10. Re: More reprsentative stats please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He can't here you.

    I can't wait for transporter technology to be perfected. When I want to yell at somebody, I can "here" them, give them a piece of my mind, and then "away" them. Preferably someplace far from where they started.

  11. Re:More reprsentative stats please by kiddygrinder · · Score: 5, Funny

    i hate IE because i had to build websites that worked in IE 6. never forget

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  12. Re: More reprsentative stats please by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 4, Funny

    He can't there you either...

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